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ISSUE #34
 
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March 2005
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***BIO*** Christopher Major: My work has appeared in the UK print press and online recently at:  Snakeskin, High Horse, Pemmican, Poetrykit, Stirring, Remark, Shampoo, James River Poetry Review, Openwide, Thieves Jargon. Laura Hird, My Favourite Bullet, ect....  I have a chapbook soon released from FEEL FREE PRESS.
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REVEALING
by Christopher Major
He fell 6 foot and 12 years
to mumble for "mum" ;
his neck gaped as
a white shirt sucked
the colour from his face.
Friends had to beg
bouncers for a mobile ,
as he rattled a comedy
noise into beer towels
growing dark and heavy .
Approaching sirens
started to whirr thoughts ,
that I knew, when eventually settled,
must include this young kid asking -

"How can people be so unfeeling ?"

And me knowing
it was easy ,
too fucking easy ,
while struggling not to notice ,
how the sodden red top
of the victim's girl
emphasized her tits.....................